Smith v. Shehee

The Court of Appeal has asked whether a judgment which that court rendered in a petitory action, for property having a value within the jurisdiction of the court, is null for want of jurisdiction because, in order to decide who owned the property, the court had to decide the question of legitimacy of certain heirs from whom the plaintiff claimed title, and had to decide also whether an act purporting to legitimate the defendants was valid. The judgment was rendered in the case of W. B. Smith v. Daisy Adams Rambo et al., 15 La. App. 448, 131 So. 524.

Our answer is that the case was within the…